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Dancing in the English Style: Consumption, Americanisation and National Identity in Britain, 1918-50 by Allison Abra
RRP: £25.00£17.92Dancing in the English style explores the development, experience, and cultural representation of popular dance in Britain from the end of the First World War to the early 1950s. It describes the rise of modern ballroom dancing as Britain's predominant... -
Hitler's Air Bridges: The Luftwaffe's Supply Operations of the Second World War by Dmitry Degtev
RRP: £25.00£17.62Much has been written about the famous fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe which proved so successful in the invasion of Poland, the Battle of France, the Battle of Britain and in the early operations in Eastern Europe. Little attention, however, has... -
Cold War Berlin: An Island City: Volume 3 - US Forces in Berlin - Keeping the Peace, 1945-1994 by Andrew Long
RRP: £19.95£14.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510292Author Andrew LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
A Jewish Refugee in New York: Rivke Zilberg's Journal by Kadya Molodovsky
RRP: £18.99£16.72Rivke Zilberg, a 20-year-old Jewish woman, arrives in New York shortly after the Nazi invasion of Poland, her home country. Struggling to learn a new language and cope with a different way of life in the United States, Rivke finds herself keeping a... -
Horace: Epodes by Horace
RRP: £32.99£29.23The Epodes, with the first book of the Satires, were Horace's first published work. They consist of a collection of seventeen poems in different versions of the iambus, the metre traditionally associated with lampoon. David Mankin's introduction and... -
Italian Magic: Secret Lives of Women: Secret Lives of Women by Karyn Crisis 9780578773346
RRP: £30.99£23.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578773346Author Karyn CrisisFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Karyn Krol-TisoPublisher Karyn Krol-TisoWeight(grams) 152g -
Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire from the Blitz to the Swinging Sixties by Julie Summers
RRP: £9.99£7.03'Magnificent ... Dressed for War works on many levels: as an evocation of an uncommon time; as a celebration of an uncommon woman; as pure, unalloyed fun.' Lucy Davies, Daily TelegraphDressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor... -
D-Day: Piercing the Atlantic Wall Robert J Kershaw 9780711033238
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780711033238Author Robert J KershawFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Ian Allan PublishingPublisher Crecy PublishingDimensions(mm) 194mm * 130mm * 20mm -
Jane Austen's Names: Riddles, Persons, Places by Margaret Anne Doody 9780226157832
RRP: £31.00£30.59In Jane Austen's works, a name is never just a name. In fact, the names Austen gives her characters and places are as rich in subtle meaning as her prose itself. Wiltshire, for example, the home county of Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey, is a clue... -
James I by Christopher Durston
RRP: £36.99£32.53James I has traditionally been portrayed as a foolish and unpleasant man. However, the last two decades have seen a rehabilitation of James I by historians, who have begun to appreciate that in some areas, in particular foreign policy and religion, he... -
The Environment and the Classical World by Patrica Jeskins 9781853995477
RRP: £22.99£22.85For the people of antiquity, the dominant force in shaping their life, economy and culture was the natural environment. This is an exploration of the direct influence of the geography, climate and resources of the Mediterranean world upon the Greeks and... -
After Such Knowledge: A Meditation on the Aftermath of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman
RRP: £15.99£11.61As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its... -
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 by Prasannan Parthasarathi
RRP: £26.99£21.50Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that... -
Thatcher's Progress: From Social Democracy to Market Liberalism through an English New Town by Guy Ortolano
RRP: £34.99£30.49During the quarter of a century after the Second World War, the United Kingdom designated thirty-two new towns across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Why, even before selling council houses or denationalising public industries, did... -
The Bombing of Bath by Niall Rothnie 9780956440518
RRP: £9.99£9.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956440518Author Niall RothnieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Folly Books LtdPublisher Folly Books LtdDimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 15mm -
Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt: How Slavery Was Overthrown by Professor James Walvin
RRP: £7.99£5.71'Walvin synthesises this complex global history with skill and ingenuity. Freedom is beautifully written and clearly organised . . . thought-provoking, rich in detail and imbued with an emotional intelligence that pushes us to imagine what slave life... -
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern
RRP: £28.95£17.86A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning... -
A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America's Ghosts by Leanna Renee Hieber
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806541587Author Leanna Renee HieberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S. -
Access to History for the IB Diploma: The move to global war by Andy Dailey
RRP: £28.00£26.47A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 3: The Move to Global WarThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level,... -
On the Seven Deadly Sins by Lord Kenneth Baker
RRP: £30.00£23.47In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins - Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust - have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really... -
Why the New Deal Matters by Eric Rauchway 9780300252002
£20.00A look at how the New Deal fundamentally changed American life, and why it remains relevant today"A must-read for those who've read nothing about the New Deal before, those who've read everything about it, and anyone in between. With timeless prose and... -
Civil War in Central Europe, 1918-1921: The Reconstruction of Poland by Jochen Boehler
RRP: £28.49£24.78The First World War did not end in Central Europe in November 1918. The armistices marked the creation of the Second Polish Republic and the first shot of the Central European Civil War which raged from 1918 to 1921. The fallen German, Russian, and... -
The Jews of Wales: A History by Cai Parry-Jones
RRP: £24.99£18.80This study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions... -
Brief Lives by Paul Johnson
RRP: £15.99£11.61In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican Muriel Belcher, who ran the legendary Colony Club. Harking... -
Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War by Julie Mertus
RRP: £27.00£21.46Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and... -
I am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck by James Baldwin
RRP: £12.99£9.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434696Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIA by Michael Graziano
RRP: £40.00£33.59Reveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the... -
German Fighter Ace Erich Hartmann by Ursula Hartman
RRP: £54.99£36.21Here is the life story of the most successful fighter pilot of all time, with 352 air combat victories - who spent ten and a half years behind Soviet barbed wire, surviving prison uprisings, hunger strikes, resistance against the NKVD and forced labor... -
Elizabeth I by Judith M. Richards
RRP: £37.99£33.38Elizabeth I was Queen of England for almost forty-five years. The daughter of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn, as an infant she was briefly accepted as her father's heir. After her mother was executed at her father's command she was declared illegitimate and... -
Heroes of Telemark: Sabotaging Hitler's atomic bomb, Norway 1942-44 by David Greentree
RRP: £15.99£12.05In May 1941, the Norwegian Section of SOE received a dossier warning of the dangers of a hydroelectric fertiliser plant in Norway. Vemork produced heavy water, an essential part of making plutonium for nuclear weapons. When the Germans overran Norway the... -
Britannia: The Creation of a Roman Province by John Creighton 9780415487146
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book completely re-evaluates the evidence for, and the interpretation of, the rule of the kings of Late Iron Age Britain: Cunobelin and Verica. Within a few generations of their reigns, after one died and the other had fled, Rome's ceremonial... -
Fighting the Slave Trade - West African Strategies by Sylviane A. Diouf
RRP: £24.99£23.92This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries. This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used... -
Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution: Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns by John Foster
RRP: £37.99£33.38Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques... -
Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949-1967 by Michael Schoenhals
RRP: £22.99£16.18Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union and East Germany were directed by the Communist Party. By... -
Trajan: Optimus Princeps by Julian Bennett
RRP: £37.99£33.78Did Trajan really deserve his reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues? Why did Dante, writing in the Middle Ages, place him in the sixth sphere of Heaven among the Just and Temperate rulers?In this, the only biography of Trajan available in... -
The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes and Striped Fabric by Michel Pastoureau 9780231123662
£37.97Michel Pastoureau's lively study of stripes offers a unique and engaging perspective on the evolution of fashion, taste, and visual codes in Western culture. The Devil's Cloth begins with a medieval scandal. When the first Carmelites arrived in France... -
Great Stagecoach Robberies of the Old West by R. Michael Wilson 9780762741274
RRP: £9.99£7.54Stagecoach robbers evolved as a consequence of the discovery of gold or silver, or some other mineral treasure, and a town would "spring forth from the earth" overnight. Roads were soon built and stage lines began operating. A "pitching Betsy" would take... -
Time Frames: Japanese Cinema and the Unfolding of History by Scott Nygren 9780816647088
RRP: £20.99£18.77Until 1951, when Kurosawa's Rashomon won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice Film Festival, Japanese cinema was isolated from world distribution and the international discourse on film. After this historic event, however, Japanese cinema... -
Rome: An Empire's Story by Greg Woolf
RRP: £21.99£15.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190687458Author Greg WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 703gDimensions(mm)... -
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World by Marc Raboy 9780199313587
RRP: £37.99£28.71A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were...